Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Roisín Na Mainiach, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roisín Na Mainiach
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30691, -9.79368
- SMR number
- GA077-021----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On W side of a byroad close to a sea inlet called Loch na Leannach. Known locally as Tobar Muire, it consists of a small natural spring feeding into a natural rounded pothole (D c. 0.3m) at the foot of a tiny altar-like rock outcrop. Some concrete is in evidence around the pothole and a lifesize statue of the Virgin, erected in 1944, stands over it. The well and statue are at S end of a small plot with neat paths. Mac Giollarnáth (1941, 36-7) gives the legend of the Virgin's appearance here in Famine times. (Robinson 1985, 47-8)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.